Ryder offers winter weather tips for truck fleets
In preparation for the upcoming winter season, Ryder System Inc. shared its best practices to help fleets get ready for the season. Proactive planning around fleet maintenance, proper fueling, driver training and driver safety can help maintain fleet uptime and prevent unexpected breakdowns and accidents, said the company. “Last year’s polar vortex wreaked havoc on
Ryder recognized for sixth consecutive year
Ryder System Inc., for the sixth consecutive year, has been named by Inbound Logistics editors a Green Supply Chain Partner for the magazine’s annual “Green 75” issue. “This latest recognition reinforces Ryder’s ongoing commitment to assist companies that seek alternatives to reduce fuel costs, carbon output and meet their environmental objectives,” said John Williford, president
Ryder and Quantum reach long-term compressed natural gas agreement
Ryder System Inc. announced it has entered into a long-term agreement with Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. for the purchase and supply of complete compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel systems for businesses that lease CNG trucks from Ryder. With the agreement, Ryder will purchase CNG tank systems directly from Quantum and install them onto
Managing tires matters: Products and systems to ensure uptime, lower operating costs
With well over one million tires on the road, it’s highly appropriate that Ryder System’s vice president of supply management, Scott Perry, uses the word “dynamic” when he’s describing the company’s extensive Total Tire Management program. “With a commercial fleet nearing 200,000 vehicles, we have approximately 1.25 million tires in our system,” he says. “Needless
“Managing” can minimize downtime: Why trucks experience unscheduled downtime and addressing remedies
Unexpected out-of-service events, especially when they happen on the road, are always expensive—too expensive to be dismissed as being inevitable. Yet many fleets, in their busy day-to-day operations, too often fail to address how the road breakdowns that they do experience might be avoided in the future. Dick Hyatt, president of Decisiv Inc., a provider
